Todd Engineers: Sally McCraven

Expertise:

Ms. McCraven has almost 30 years of professional geologic and hydrogeologic experience. While her work has encompasses the full range of surface and groundwater studies including development, management, and protection, her special area of focus is on water quality issues. As such, she has an extensive background in soil, groundwater, and surface water contamination investigations. She has characterized a variety of complex hydrogeologic systems and associated contaminant transport. She has assessed the fate and transport of many contaminants including ubiquitous chemicals such as trichloroethene and tetrachloroethene as well as emerging contaminants such as perchlorate, n-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA), and 1,4-dioxane, which tend to be highly mobile in groundwater.

Sally has designed and implemented groundwater monitoring programs for landfills, wastewater treatment plants, and contamination sites and has developed basin-wide surface water and groundwater monitoring programs for water agencies for the protection of water resources. She has designed and monitored soil and groundwater remedial systems. She has assessed artificial recharge alternatives and has conducted investigations of impacts of recycled water recharge. In addition to her environmental experience, she has led water supply development feasibility studies.

Sally's clients include landfill and wastewater treatment plant operators, groundwater management agencies, water purveyors, companies involved in contamination releases, developers, and law firms. She has been a designated expert witness in a groundwater litigation matter and has provided litigation support on numerous environmental and landslide cases.

Academic Background and Professional Credentials:

Professional Geologist California, No. 5427
Certified Engineering Geologist California, No. 1744
Certified Hydrogeologist California, No. 356

MS, Environmental Management, University of San Francisco, 1993 (Master's Thesis: Groundwater Remediation and Control through Interceptor Trenches and Extraction Wells at a RCRA Site in California)
BS, Geology, Wayne State University, Michigan, 1979